影片改编自同名畅销小说，故事讲述了在洛杉矶的拉古纳海滩，两个最要好的毒贩子Chon和Ben拒绝了墨西哥大毒枭为其卖命的要求，后者便绑架了二人的“红颜知己”Ophelia并索要一大笔赎金，为了救出女伴，他们偷偷盗取大毒枭自己的货物以换取赎金；真不啻是一场危险的角逐。
Brief Meetings is about a love triangle between three very different people. Nadia, a country girl, falls in love with Maskim, a roaming guitar playing geologist, and in her search for him she ends up working for Valentina, his long-distance, bureaucrat wife. Nadia begins to work as a maid for Valentina, but as they spend time together they have flashbacks to their brief meetin...
Sorn, an ethnic Shan sex worker, copes with his bitter reality in Chiang Mai, Thailand by imagining himself in his clients’ lives. He is drawn into a complex relationship with one client, a police officer investigating a political activist, even as he tries to build a future of his own as a refugee far from home.
咸丰八年的浙江绍兴,一条乌蓬船上坐着一位年轻英俊、踌躇满志的青年人,他就是去县城应试秀才的青年孔少成。 途中,孔少成遇见去县城应考的丁举人的儿子丁家昌。孔、丁两家世代素有怨仇,此刻,两船在河中相撞,丁家昌与孔少成同时落水,在河里冲突起来……
大學生黃惜時，自幼喪父，慈母省吃儉用，供他上大學，望子成龍，惜他誤交壞友，染上揮霍享樂惡習，暑假期間，黃遇見少女白素行，一見鍾情，白亦對黃有愛意，惟真情不露，兩人曾相約於荔枝灣見面，黃拿著頸鏈等候白，不料白因故失約，黃失望而回，途中巧遇校花米錦華，黃為米的美色吸引，以頸鏈相贈示愛，貪慕虛榮的校花米，誤信黃是官家子弟，揮金如土，即投懷送抱，黃把慈母的血汗錢，揮霍享樂，更六親不認，拒認慈母。米玩弄黃之後移情別戀，嫁予馮團長為妾侍，此時，黃已被學校開除，身敗名裂，寄身於寺廟，徬徨無助之際……
